TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 33-year-old feminine reporter for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on suspicion of stalking a male reporter from one other newspaper, experiences Fuji Information Community (Aug. 29).
In accordance with police, Aoi Hanzawa, a reporter within the paper’s Financial and Social Safety Group, despatched messages comparable to “I wish to see you” to the male reporter, aged in his 30s, on 64 events between August 17 and 25 utilizing the chat perform of the app PayPay.
Upon her arrest for violating the Stalking Prevention Act, Hanazawa partially denied the costs, saying, “I don’t acknowledge this as a result of I believed my emotions had been acceptable [to him].”
Previous to her arrest, Hanazawa had reportedly acquired a number of warnings from police over the previous 12 months.
The Nikkei commented, “We deeply remorse the arrest of certainly one of our workers. We are going to take strict motion as quickly because the details are clarified.”
Married with three kids
What was neglected of that report by Fuji Information Community is that the 2 had been in reality relationship, this regardless of him being married with three kids.
Given his standing, some marvel why she has been singled out, says the web website for weekly tabloid Shukan Shincho.
Their relationship was well-known amongst political reporters masking Nagatacho, the beat for each of them.
A social affairs reporter for an additional paper tells Shincho that Hanzawa moved from the Mainichi Shimbun to the Nikkei final 12 months. In the meantime, her boyfriend was within the Political Division of the rival paper. “The 2 had been masking the identical topics because the prime minister and the Heisei Analysis Division,” the supply says.
After shifting to Nikkei, she was assigned to the Financial and Social Safety Group and was in command of the Ministry of Finance. In the meantime, he was transferred from the Political Division to the Financial Division on the rival paper throughout the identical interval.
Clearly, he denied the connection when requested however that runs counter to what was extensively recognized.
“Mysterious paperwork stating that the 2 had been having an affair had been circulated, and it turned recognized to each corporations,” continues the aforementioned supply.
“I wish to see you”
The journal wonders: Why couldn’t they half methods cleanly? The reply is that she was agonized by the considered letting him go.
That desperation is clearly revealed within the 64 messages that Hanazawa despatched to him: “I wish to die,” “Don’t go away me alone” and “I wish to see you.”
There are additionally rumors that at one level Hanazawa was so upset that she confronted his spouse.
Given the existence of the connection, the identical social affairs reporter says that each events ought to bear duty for the difficulty. “Even when the stalking was actual, one was handed over to the police and reported by identify whereas the opposite continues to work as if nothing had occurred,” the identical reporter says.
Shortly after the information of Hanazawa’s arrest, a bylined article by him appeared on the entrance web page of the morning version of the newspaper to which he belongs.
“Usually, they might have eliminated him in the event that they’d thought of the timing. How may they let that run? What an organization,” the social affairs reporter says.
